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'A Declaration of Interdependence' is part of a larger project 'Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change.' Each of
these films will offer the ability for organizations to use the film for free to reach their communities just like this one.

Video (8 min): NOW on PBS: Fixing the Future host David Brancaccio tackles one of the toughest challenges facing Americans
today: How does our country create jobs that pay well and build prosperity? Brancaccio travels across America uncovering innovative
community and small business projects pioneered by inspirational personalities.
(Hour Exchange Portland segment.)

Video: NOW on PBS -- Fixing the Future host David Brancaccio tackles one of the toughest challenges facing Americans
today: How does our country create jobs that pay well and build prosperity? Brancaccio travels across America uncovering innovative
community and small business projects pioneered by inspirational personalities.

The Story of Stuff Project was created by Annie Leonard to leverage and extend the film's impact. They amplify public discourse on a series of environmental, social and economic concerns and facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community's involvement in strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world.

World renowned economist Stewart Wallis of the New Economics Foundation spoke in Portland about retooling local and global economies
that produce good jobs for everyone, improves human wellbeing, and decreases social inequality - all within our planetary limits.

[VIDEO] 'Collaborative consumption'

Put your underused stuff to work. All of that idle dust-collecting can be harnessed for the greater good, say authors Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers. Their book, What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, describes a new 21st century economy rising up to take advantage of the massive potential of all our unused stuff. Botsman calls it "a fundamental change in the relationship between producers and consumers and people in society that's starting to reinvent not just what we consume but how we consume."